Covid-19 may be a driver of poor behaviour on SA roads
2020 has been possibly the most stressful year ever for South Africans, and that stress stays with them when they get behind the wheel
It’s a cliché, but also a fundamental truth, that few of us have lived through a year as disruptive as 2020. Granted, humankind has seen worse cataclysms: world wars, the Black Plague, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression.
But the fallouts from the year of Covid-19 are still emerging and some may take years to manifest. The emotional and psychological impacts of the pandemic have already proven to be profound and how they might affect road behaviour and safety is of particular interest to me. It should be of concern to the business sector in general for a number of reasons, not least because of SA’s lamentable record of traffic accidents...
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